Unique Wedding Favors for Your Special Day

Wedding favors leave a lasting impression in the minds of your wedding guests, so why not make them unique? Wedding favors are a token or gift that the happy couple give to each of their guests, traditionally at the end of the reception. Traditionally, small edible items like Jordan almonds or mints have been popular choices. These little sweets are often packaged in tulle bags. While these traditional favors acknowledge a past era, they don't really communicate much about your wedding or your personalities as a couple. Choosing a unique wedding favor that is personalized, themed to your specific wedding, or made by you is a great way to show appreciation to your guests and leave them with a special commemoration of your day.



Personalization is a fantastic way to make you wedding favors unique. Some favors can be personalized by adding the couple's names or monogram. The wedding date may also be featured, or an image of the couple. Often, standard favors like bookmarks, matchbooks, or boxes of mints can be personalized to make them more special and completely unique to the couple. Personalizing favors can be as easy as ordering your selected favor from a website or catalog that specializes in wedding favors; you can enter your names and other personal information into a form and it is automatically printed onto your favor. You could also incorporate personalization by printing your own tags, or getting tags or stickers printed, and then attaching them to your chosen favor.



Another great way to create unique wedding favors is to choose a favor that is themed to your event. If you are planning to have your wedding near the holidays, a snowflake or winter-themed favor might be a good choice. The favor could reference your location: if you have your reception at a special museum or theme park, check their gift shops for small items that could be used as favors and that are themed around the place. Destination weddings provide the ultimate in thematic opportunity--the entire wedding weekend is already themed around the exotic location, so it's natural to choose a wedding favor that compliments that (think seashells covered picture frames for a tropical destination).



Hand crafting your wedding favors can be a great way to infuse your personality or theme into the wedding, and create something that is truly unique. There are many kits available that are designed to provide all the materials needed to help the bride (or groom!) build their favors by hand. If you're artistically inclined, you can also create favors yourself-hand paint tiny birdhouses, or burn custom CD's featuring musical highlights from the day.



Whatever favors your choose to give your guests, rest assured that with a little thought and effort your can have perfectly unique wedding favours that reflect the one-of-a-kind love you and your fiancé share.